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06.25.2026

Administration of Mail-In Voting

Measuring Data Across a Nationwide Patchwork of Policy Decisions

By Arianna Conte

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12.16.2021

A Deep Dive into Absentee Ballot Rejection in the 2020 General Election

By Declan Chin

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12.14.2021

How Policy Influenced the Partisan Divide over Voting by Mail

By Joelle Gross

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09.01.2020

Analysis: Vote By Mail in Colorado and Washington

By Pia Deshpande

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08.20.2020

What the Elections Performance Index Tells Us About 2020

By Charles Stewart III

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07.31.2020

What the Elections Performance Index can — and can’t — tell us about Vote-By-Mail

By Pia Deshpande

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